The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Volume 1

Edited by Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Göran Mäler

This book presents a set of authoritative studies of the role of environmental resources in the development process, written by some of the most expert professionals in a wide range of associated fields. Contributors address the problems connected with the management of local common property resources, such as soil, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries, and supply both explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. This volume will be the definitive codification of our understanding of geographically localized environmental problems.

The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Volume 1

Edited by Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Göran Mäler

Description

Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet "official" development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their natural resources, the link between acute poverty and environmental degradation, and the problems associated with the management of local common property such as soil and soil cover, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries. In this volume, part of the WIDER Program on the Economics of the Environment, expert contributors provide a set of authoritative studies of emerging development issues, ranging from foundational matters to case studies, original
research (in areas where there has been a paucity of work) to survey papers. They address both analytic and empirical issues on the role of environmental resources in the development process, presenting explanations of existing situations and policies for the future. A wealth of interests and backgrounds is represented, and reflected in the cross-fertilization between papers.

The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

Volume 1

Edited by Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Göran Mäler

Table of Contents

1. The Resource-Basis of Production and Consumption, Partha Dasgupta and Barry Nalebuff2. On a Clear Day, You Can See the Coase Theorem, Barry Nalebuff3. Common-Property Resource-Management in Traditional Societies, Raymond Noronha4. A Water Perspective on Population, Environment, and Development, Malin Falkenmark5. Environmental Statistics and the National Accounts, Martin Weale6. The Environment and Net National Product, Partha Dasgupta, Bengt Kriström, and Karl-Göran Mäler7. Can Computable General-Equilibrium Models Shed Light on the Environmental Problems of Developing Countries?, Shanta Devarajan8. Development Strategies and the Environment, Irma Adelman, Habib Fetini, and Elise Hardy Golan9. Choice under Uncertainty:
Problems Solved and Unsolved, Mark Machina